Filming!

So I helped my friend, Matt (who I've probably mentioned a couple of times by now since we're really close) with his short film yesterday.


It wasn't a big affair (it's only a short film), and I was to only do makeup on one girl.

 I (obviously) brought more than necessary, and I had the look already planned out, but I just chucked a bunch of other things in just in case.

Since the girl that I was doing makeup on was a thief who lived in the woods, I used a lot of muddy looking colors on her face (which you can somewhat see here) and had to create injuries on her face. I used lash glue, red and plum lipstick, and brown eyeshadow for them.

I feel this one turned out pretty well.

I had to peel this one a bit because the white lash glue refused to turn red/purple. 

 Then we hiked in very tall, itchy grass and thorns for at least 15 minutes (maybe more). Before we saw one place that we thought we would film- but there was no room for running, so we hiked some more in the tall grass and thorns before we reached the desired place.

Some shots of the area:

 Filming was supposed to end at 5:30, but we had to extend it to 6pm. We probably started filming at 3, and so it took about 3 hours in total. The short film will probably only be maybe 5 minutes however. *_____*

There were only 6 people on set- 3 of them were actors, 2 of them were manning cameras/directing and then there's me- doing all of the moving and gathering props, helping the actors/actresses, retouching the (fake) injuries and all of that.

Speaking of injuries, I was stupid and wore shorts (I chose being scratched/bitten over being overheated) and got a lot of bug bites (that are the size of quarters right now), scratched by quite a few thorns, and also got hit by a flying (fake) machete that one of the actresses had to fling, and I happened to be standing at an appropriate spot (I have a bruise now).

But it was a very fun and memorable experience! And since Matt liked my help and work, I'll probably be back helping with his mini series of short films- this one is the first of the storyline.

Bye, going to go put Neosporin on my bug bites. ; ;